Marcus Chan

I desire more information. (they/???)

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

@pokegenieinfo hey, are you required to participate when hosting ultra beasts/easy 4/5 stars? I saw a tweet from you saying you aren't on 1/3 stars. I could host a few stakatakas off one gym to help eat into the queue, but only if that's allowed?

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

I don't know.

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

Had to log back into this account for old times' sake: iPhone weight comparison. You can tell when Apple switched from steel to aluminum (5, 12, 14 plus) or titanium (15 pro/pro max).

[Ron Amadeo @RonAmadeo]

Isn't this THE POINT of Twitter? It's not like you can host content here. The point is links and discussions of those links.

Creators pump this site full of free, beneficial content every day and now you won't even let them link to where they want to get some scrap of publicity?

[Vienna Teng @viennateng]

OK, experiment time!
Music x climate action.
Songwriting x climate geekery.
Monthly streaming shows from my living room x posts about tactical urbanism & PUC hearings.
+ who knows what else.

$5/month.
Let's give this a go. 💜

https://t.co/tcx8TyuBhP
https://t.co/spDP60Zt0l

[Vienna Teng @viennateng]

@annajanejoyner Not sure if it “meaningfully portrays” climate per se, but I found Becky Chambers’ _A Psalm For the Wild-Built_ to be just as advertised: a nice cup of tea for anyone who could use a break. Set in an alternate world, post-planetary crisis, after wise collective decisions.

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

@alexwlchan Yes! I finished the Wayfarers series reading them to my friend. I think The Galaxy and the Ground Within was my favorite (Akaraks <3), although I think of RoaSF the most often considering the specific way it makes me think about society and our, you know, *gestures vaguely*

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

Anyways, I made the mistake of scrolling down and seeing some user reviews of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, and usually the sort of ignorant garbage you see all over the web doesn't get to me, but I'm about 2/3 of the way through the book, and in this case it really did.

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

Please say yes. Then I can stop buying ancient chargers for my 8 year old laptop every time they split near the connector.

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

So… is it the same MagSafe?

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

Man, that seems like... such a waste of a gorgeous hardware design. https://t.co/kz2dbhtiPB

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

As always, Charlie’s tone is whatever it’s going to be, but the technical details are interesting.

[Charlie Demerjian @CDemerjian]

Just posted a story on AMD's Ryzen 5800X3D. So close but so flawed. Overall - bad idea.
https://t.co/8Y1FrivHVc

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

Wow, this product is far more interesting and complex to summarize than I thought it was going to be.

[GamersNexus @GamersNexus]

AMD has been talking about its Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU for a long time now, and our review can finally go up. The release date is in a few days, so be sure to watch the review to make your decisions. Features the $800 i9-12900KS we bought, too: https://t.co/NkYY4cLPcb

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

Hard to represent in one screenshot, but interesting that the SOC is - mostly - not directly under the heatsinks. There's enough space shown for a vapor chamber, but it's not shown. Will be interesting to see max TDP. Sub 200W certainly.

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

Interesting airflow pattern here. I assume the back-to-front flow shown is fairly minor and used to cool the "back" of the mobo, and most air just goes around and up into the blowers.

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

Anyway, this got long, but I logged on here to write @alexwlchan a thank you for the recommendation, probably years ago now. I think this will be my favorite book, on a personal level. In some ways, it's the book I'd want to have written.

[Marcus Chan @marcustyphoon]

It takes a rich and complicated universe and shows you the love in it. That's my review. That's what I wanted. (And sure, it's worldbuilding-with-a-side-of-plot at first - that's exactly how I write, too, so that's perfect for me.)